Working Together to Safeguard Children - Guidance Updates for 2018

13-Sep-2018

The Department for Education (DfE) has recently published updates to the official guidance which defines what child organisations and agencies should do
to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children and young people under the age of 18.

The new 2018 guidance follows a government consultation, launched in October 2017, which set out the changes needed to support the
new system of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements established by the Children and Social Work Act 2017.

The DfE have advised the updates are important to the previous version of the guidance first published in 2015.

Amongst the changes, key areas which differ from the 2015 guidance include: